Building the WallTop 110
mramsundar writes "Here is an interesting link that shows how to convert your laptop into something called as walltop. A number of these walltops, when connected, can host a slideshow that can show digitized images."
Very cool & mirror (Score:5, Informative)
place (from the pictures, it appears to be left in place). If it is, then how is the walltop "dead quiet"? If not, how does he keep it cool?
Mirror is located here [networkmirror.com].
Google Cache (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Very cool & mirror (Score:2, Informative)
# Chris Says:
June 18th, 2005 at 17:21
Some Idiot: No the fan is still there. (see the pictures) It's just that running a slideshow doesn't demand that much cpu power and therefore the fan never starts. The other fact that helps to keep the system cool is that the mb is mounted in the lower end of the frame, so the air can circulate well.
I think.... (Score:2, Informative)
mini-itx (Score:2, Informative)
Here is the original article:
The mini-itx based pictureframe pc:
http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/pictureframepc/ [mini-itx.com]
MoviX (Score:2, Informative)
MoviX [sf.net] can do this, 3 different distro's 10mb,25mb,50mb
based on Isolinux bootloader and Mplayer
its as simple as
add images/movies > create iso > burn > reboot
even compile it from windows
networking, netbios good hardware support
written in perl, i love it, no hard drive required
could do with polishing at the edges, but it is open source and working